Liquid crystals: Mostly Nematics

Presentations

• Chirality and biaxiality in cholesteric liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 2:30 PM – March 16, 2010, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Subas Dhakal

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

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• Simulation studies of defect textures and dynamics in 3-d cholesteric droplets

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 2:42 PM – March 16, 2010, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Vianney Gimenez-Pinto

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.

  • Shin-Ying Lu

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.

  • Robin Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.

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• Photopolymerization-Induced Mesophase Transition in Relation to Phase Diagram of Reactive Nematic Mesogen and Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Mixture

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 2:54 PM – March 16, 2010, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Tsang-Min Huang

    • Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH

  • Thein Kyu

    • Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH

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• Glassy correlations and thermal fluctuations in nematic elastomers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 3:06 PM – March 16, 2010, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Bing Lu

    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Xiangjun Xing

    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University

  • Fangfu Ye

    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois

  • Paul Goldbart

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Universiy of Illinois
    • University of Illinois
    • UIUC
    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Minimal model for polydomain nematic elastomers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 3:18 PM – March 16, 2010, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Fangfu Ye

    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois

  • Bing Lu

    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Xiangjun Xing

    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University

  • Paul Goldbart

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Universiy of Illinois
    • University of Illinois
    • UIUC
    • Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Real space analysis by direct observation in liquid crystal dynamics

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2010, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Beom-Jin Yoon

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Min Sang Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Ok Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Prediction of flow-aligning and tumbling in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal using measurements of orienation order parameters

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2010, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Min Sang Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technolgy
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Beom-Jin Yoon

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Center for Advnaced Research on Optical Microscopy
    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile \& Fiber Eng., Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA 30332
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile \& Fiber Eng, Gerogia Tech., Atlanta, GA 30332
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Eng., Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA 30332

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• Elastic constants and viscosities of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal studied by dynamic light scattering and magnetic Frederick transition

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2010, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Madhabi Majumdar

    • Kent State University

  • Peter Salamon

  • James Gleeson

    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Kent State University

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• Bulk Structure and Interface Ordered Focal Conic Domains of the Dark Conglomerate Phase of a 4,4'-diphenylmethane Based Bent-Core Mesogen

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2010, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • J. Maclennan

  • D. Chen

  • Y. Shen

  • C. Zhu

  • L. Hough

  • M. Glaser

  • N. Clark

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • N. Gimeno

  • M. Ros

    • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Arag\'on, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain

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• Blue Phase Mixtures of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals and Chiral Dopants

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2010, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Stefanie Taushanoff

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Khoa Van Le

    • Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Techology

  • Robert Twieg

    • Department of Chemistry, Kent State University

  • Hideo Takezoe

    • Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Antal Jakli

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

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• Cones and Anticones: Spontaneous Mechanical Response of Disclinations in Nematic Glasses

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2010, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Carl Modes

    • University of Cambridge

  • Kaushik Bhattacharya

    • California Institue of Technology
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Mark Warner

    • University of Cambridge

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• A Line Defect Structure in Soft-Mode Turbulence

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2010, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Rinto A Nur Qomaru Zaman

    • Kyushu University

  • Tatsuhiro Ueki

    • Kyushu University

  • Yoshiki Hidaka

    • Kyushu University

  • Michael I. Tribelsky

    • MIREA Russia

  • Shoichi Kai

    • Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences
    • Kyushu University

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• Macroscopic Behavior of Nematics with D$_{2d}$ Symmetry

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2010, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Harald Pleiner

    • MPI Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

  • Helmut R. Brand

    • Theoretische Physik III, Universitaet Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

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• A novel soft-core spherocylinder model for liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2010, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Jing Zong

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University

  • Xinghua Zhang

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University

  • Qiang WANG

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University

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• Nematic order on curved spherical spaces

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2010, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

  • Teresa Lopez-Leon

  • Sharan Devaiah

  • Ekapop Pairam

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• Diffusion in Rodlike Polymer Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2010, 5:42 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Russo

    • Louisiana State University

  • Garrett Doucet

    • Louisiana State University

  • Jianhong Qiu

    • Louisiana State University

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